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- EIN 56-2325850
- info@bqliahec.org
- (718) 797-1558
- 300 Cadman Plaza West, One Pierrepont Plaza, 12 Floor Brooklyn NY 11201 USA
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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Community Health Systems, Health, Public Health
Mission: The Brooklyn Queens Long Island Area Health Education Center (BQLI AHEC) is one of nine centers throughout New York State. Its mission is to improve health care outcomes by increasing the pool of skilled providers working in traditionally under served communities.
Target demographics: students and health professionals
Direct beneficiaries per year: 500
Geographic areas served: Brooklyn, Queens, Long Island
Programs: The summer health internship program (ship) provides high school students with internships in the health care field. The program places these students in six-week placements in hospitals, and community health care centers. Students spend three days a week at a local hospital or health center and one day a week at a dedicated session focused on health careers and community health issues. Interns have the support of more than eighty health care professionals (including doctors, dentists, nurses, technicians) as workshop presenters and mentors. The community health experience is a collaboration between the three new york city area health education centers to provide a community based internship to students who have completed the first year of medical school at the new york college of osteopathic medicine. The health careers opportunity program (hcop) at suny downstate medical center exposes students to health career information and provides hands-on learning opportunities for students. For five weeks, the students go on excursions to hospitals and medical facilities, and attend workshops held by nurses, social workers, doctors, and various other health professionals. Ambassadors for coverage program through a grant from the justice center, bqli ahec conducted numerous outreach activities and presentations to educate the public about health insurance options under the new york state of health marketplace. Nursing students and faculty were educated via presentations and workshops and individual consumers were reached through tabling events and presentations. Brooklyn nursing partnership symposium the bqli ahec staff coordinated a health symposium in collaboration with the brooklyn nursing partnership, a coalition of brooklyn nursing faculty and chief nursing officers to assess the impact of new york states delivery system reform incentive payment (dsrip) program on brooklyn nursing staffing.